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Old 01-08-2012, 02:47 PM   #16
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Rumour has it one of the reasons Toyota and Subaru are doing this it to bail Subaru out of its finansial messes caused by high-cost yet not commercially successful K-cars and keep the Gunma Plant alive. I am skeptical about the theory, but won't comment until we see all the pieces of the puzzle.
They announced that they were transitioning their kei cars to rebadged Daihatsus (thanks to Toyota) in what, 2008? Isn't the AS1 production using retooled kei car production lines? I think it's pretty safe to say that this is part of that deal, but I don't know nearly enough about kei cars in general to say that definitively - maybe others have more insight?
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